Aphra Behn Quotes
Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and...
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Fantastic fortune thou deceitful light,That cheats the weary traveler by night,Though on a precipice...
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You may make love in dancing as well as sitting.
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.
And did with sighs their fate deplore,Since I must shelter them no more;And if before my joys were s...
Show MoreThere is no sinner like a young saint.
Each moment of a happy love's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of je...
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Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.
The only shame is the sin.
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
